GENRE: BBC play

DIRECTOR: Katie Mitchell

WRITER: D H Lawrence

PRINCIPAL CAST: Zoe Wannamaker [Mrs Holroyd], Colin Firth [Charlie Holroyd], Brenda Bruce [Grandmother] et al

ABOUT THE PLAY: The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd is one of several plays Lawrence wrote about mining families.

MY RATING:*** Colin is either very, very drunk or very much asleep or very dead when he is "on stage".... I always like everything Zoe Wannamaker does, and this performance is no exeption.